Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott made history on Friday as the longest-serving African American senator in the 235-year history of the institution. Scott, 59, the only Black Republican senator ...

From the first Black president to the first African American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people have made considerable gains – and helped to change the face of U.S ...

As the 119 th Congress begins on Friday, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is poised to make history as the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the U.S. Senate.

A dozen years after Obama’s barrier-breaking win, the Democratic presidential field started out as the most diverse in history – including, at one point, two African-American senators ...

Rep. McGarvey spoke on recent VA layoffs and his co-sponsoring of the Protect Veteran Jobs Act in Louisville Friday, ...

1964. Library of Congress The case was named after Oliver Brown of Topeka, Kansas, an African American man whose daughter Linda faced a long commute to school every day. Linda had been denied ...